This manual's primary aim is to provide explanations, examples and exercises for those preparing for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification Programme 1 (LPIC-1), Exam 102.
Three core sources of criteria guide this manual to its primary goals:
The LPI's Exam-102 "Objectives".
Its LPI-Approved Training Materials (LATM) criteria.
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP or TLDP) Author Guide (AG).
The LPI's Exam-102 Objectives and LATM criteria are summarized below. The Objectives are also online at:
http://www.lpi.org/en/obj_102.html
The LDP Author Guide provides a consistent, comprehensive set of guidelines for those wanting to publish HOWTOs, Tutorials and Manuals via the world's largest GNU/Linux documentation system, the LDP.
This manual adopts as its second prime objective, on equal footing with its first, the LDP Author Guide's challenge to prospective LDP authors, "to massage all of the raw data into a readable, entertaining and understandable whole." LDP-AG, 4.1. Writing the Text.